Here she is in the middle of an amount of land that is hers that makes me happy and envious

and holding a lens that evokes similar emotion


then I begged her to stop at the side of the road so I could take a potential photo for "spring"

I'm reporting about an oh so happy encounter with a real live DUer and a potential friend for life thanks to this website.

This is in a visitor center parking lot in Vermont.
The owner was from Quebec, and I felt fancy how she pronounced her service dog's name.

WOULD YOU GUYS BELIEVE:
I sent an email to Handmade34, the only person I know in Vermont, and told her where I'm going and asked where that is in relation to where she is.

Answer:
A very few miles. Seems like less than 10.

Guess who I'm seeing tomorrow at noon?

I'm so excited.

My trip is weird. I'm in the hinterland of the glory of New England spring - in lots of locations where regular, trained folk take care of people with developmental problems of all kinds and all kind of severity. The situations are either facilities with many buildings / schools / programs - or homes where there are community living arrangements. Some are young, some are all ages, some are at death's door.

I am maybe going to make a thread of some of them showing me what they are doing just showing their hands. Later.
Now I'm in a Roadway Inn too tired to think, we still have 5 days of touring left and it's strenuous.

These are a few shots from the periphery for the heck of it...
A back alley in Great Barrington, Mass. Steps and walkway. I would NEVER be on them.


In a home I saw this poster of Johnny Cash


The folks you can spy in the top had a meeting I did not need to be in, so I laid down in the "tulips" and took a nap


One of the many looms I've seen


Pigtails

that I was thinking about you
as I was terrified in NYC traffic yesterday (having had no idea the GPS thing would take me through Manhattan)
and after coming out unscathed physically my battered emotions were very grateful for what I got to see after many years of not having visited NYCity.

I met up with my brother who is taking me along on a business trip at his expense and we visited this place today
www.camphillsoltane.org
met wonderful and diverse people doing work and exhibiting their art
Hope you like it.

This was yesterday before I got there (camera dangling from neck, driving in Manhattan...)



then the serenity of the country side



then some of the folks I met and observed







and a couple of things I saw on the walls

I suspect it's still topical

N.R.A. Leader Warns of Rising Cost of Senators




HOUSTON (The Borowitz Report)—National Rifle Association C.E.O. Wayne LaPierre used his opening speech at the N.R.A.’s national convention today to highlight several challenges facing the organization, including what he called “the rising cost of Senators.”
“Over the past few years, we’ve seen the price of purchasing a Senator surge astronomically,” he told the N.R.A. faithful. “Unless something is done to make Senators more affordable, the ability of a tiny lobbying group to overrule the wishes of ninety per cent of the American people will be in jeopardy.”

The days are over, he said, when “you could buy a Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for little more than pocket change.”
“Now it costs thousands to purchase a marginally effective Senator like Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.),” he said.
Mr. LaPierre was followed at the podium by the former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the rock musician Ted Nugent, and several other people who would not pass background checks.

www.borowitzreport.com

Source: NYTimes

Boston Bombing Suspects Had First Planned Attack for July Fourth
WASHINGTON − The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings told F.B.I. interrogators that, as he and his brother plotted their deadly assault, they considered suicide attacks and striking on the Fourth of July, according to a law enforcement official.
But the suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told investigators that he and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, who was killed in a shootout with the police, ultimately decided to use pressure-cooker bombs and other homemade explosive devices, the official said.
The brothers finished building the bombs in Tamerlan’s apartment in Cambridge, Mass., faster than they anticipated and so decided to accelerate their attack to the Boston Marathon on April 15, Patriots Day in Massachusetts, from July, according to the account that Dzhokhar provided authorities. They picked the finish line of the marathon after driving around the Boston area looking for alternative sites, according to this account.
In addition, Mr. Dzhokhar told authorities that he and his brother viewed the Internet sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American cleric who moved to Yemen and was killed in September 2011 by an American drone strike. There is no indication that the brothers communicated with Mr. Awakli before his death.
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